Update draft release notes to 1.8.2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Jan 22, 2013 at 10:01 UTC
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@@ -78,6 +78,13 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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been applied, but we probably would want to revisit this later, as
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it hurts the common case of not failing at all.
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+ * Input and preconditions to "git reset" has been loosened where
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+ appropriate. "git reset $fromtree Makefile" requires $fromtree to
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+ be any tree (it used to require it to be a commit), for example.
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+ "git reset" (without options or parameters) used to error out when
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+ you do not have any commits in your history, but it now gives you
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+ an empty index (to match non-existent commit you are not even on).
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* "git submodule" started learning a new mode to integrate with the
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tip of the remote branch (as opposed to integrating with the commit
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recorded in the superproject's gitlink).
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* A new remote helper to interact with bzr has been added to contrib/.
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+ * "git p4" got various bugfixes around its branch handling.
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+ * The remote helper to interact with Hg in contrib/ has seen a few
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+ fixes.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
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@@ -99,6 +111,11 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
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* Matching paths with common forms of pathspecs that contain wildcard
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characters has been optimized further.
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+ * "git reset" internals has been reworked and should be faster in
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+ general. We tried to be careful not to break any behaviour but
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+ there could be corner cases, especially when running the command
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+ from a conflicted state, that we may have missed.
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* The implementation of "imap-send" has been updated to reuse xml
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quoting code from http-push codepath.
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@@ -145,8 +162,10 @@ details).
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* The attribute mechanism didn't allow limiting attributes to be
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applied to only a single directory itself with "path/" like the
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- exclude mechanism does.
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- (merge 94bc671 ja/directory-attrs later to maint).
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+ exclude mechanism does. The initial implementation of this that
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+ was merged to 'maint' and 1.8.1.2 was with a severe performance
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+ degradations and needs to merge a fix-up topic.
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+ (merge 9db9eec nd/fix-directory-attrs-off-by-one later to maint).
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* "git apply" misbehaved when fixing whitespace breakages by removing
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excess trailing blank lines.
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streaming a zip archive, which confused some implementations of unzip.
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(merge 5ea2c84 rs/zip-with-uncompressed-size-in-the-header later to maint).
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+ * "git clean" showed what it was going to do, but sometimes end up
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+ finding that it was not allowed to do so, which resulted in a
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+ confusing output (e.g. after saying that it will remove an
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+ untracked directory, it found an embedded git repository there
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+ which it is not allowed to remove). It now performs the actions
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+ and then reports the outcome more faithfully.
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+ (merge f538a91 zk/clean-report-failure later to maint).
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* When "git clone --separate-git-dir=$over_there" is interrupted, it
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failed to remove the real location of the $GIT_DIR it created.
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This was most visible when interrupting a submodule update.
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index, the cache-tree data structure got corrupted.
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(merge eec3e7e nd/invalidate-i-t-a-cache-tree later to maint).
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+ * "git clone" used to allow --bare and --separate-git-dir=$there
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+ options at the same time, which was nonsensical.
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+ (merge 95b63f1 nd/clone-no-separate-git-dir-with-bare later to maint).
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+ * "git rebase --preserve-merges" lost empty merges in recent versions
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+ of Git.
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+ (merge 9869778 ph/rebase-preserve-all-merges later to maint).
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* "git merge --no-edit" computed who were involved in the work done
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on the side branch, even though that information is to be discarded
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without getting seen in the editor.